February 28, 2009

Kopi (or coffee) Luwak from Sumatra, Indonesia is one of the rare type of coffee in the world. The current price of a pound of Kopi Luwak about $ 500 or more, and this is one of the most expensive coffee in the world.

In addition to the excellent taste of coffee, and coffee, is rare, since they are produced.Coffee cherries are picked, as well as other premium coffee market. In fact, the beans from the feces of pet cats Civets (scientific name: Paradoxurus), the local called "Luwak". It is believed that these mammals in the world's best coffee cherry picker. The Luwak chose coffee, ripe cherry and red and eat them. Eat only the skin, but he swallowed the beans to coffee beans are exposed to the process of fermentation in the digestive system and describe the cat Civets alien tastes. Coffee, beans and get rid of the cats Civets .

The Farmer collect the feces and cleaning the coffee.Why interest in coffee, which violates cultural taboos, ...because of his travel through the digestive system of animals? "All the calls for education and vocational training is the cat coffee," says Michael Sharp Australian cafe owner, was quoted as saying the Australian Associated Press.

High demand for coffee is folly Pyle got a forest floor, at first glance surprising. However, it is a taste of the coffee and the reasons for people to overcome the challenge of drinking "the cat, coffee, education, vocational training," says Reuters.

Kopi Luwak taste is different from other coffee in many different ways. Kopi Luwak coffee reports less protein, and there is also less other bacteria, possibly digest Civets floor. It has been absorbed by the feces of cats Civets beans are also available as the best and selected beans, because these animals only to get the best cherries of the coffee consumption.

Coffee drinkers, said it was a rich taste with hints of chocolate and candy flavors, it is lighter than other flavors of the coffee blends. Some describe as a simple, practical and musty taste, as the results of the digestion. Even the taste of coffee takes longer in the mouth.

The finished brew reportedly tastes smoother than other coffee blends and has an earthy, exotic flavor. Actually, similar coffee can be found in Vietnam and it is called “caphe cut chon” by the locals (which literally means fox-dung coffee).

February 27, 2009

I will share the world rarest and unique coffee drinks , as we all known , Coffee has being a part of our life, not all people but most of people loves it

Either in very usual and regular way to make a coffee daily in our life, to several unique way like Vietnam drips coffee , through an unusual way to enjoy this kind of drink such as Kopi Luwak , which may make sort of people didn't want to hear the process of making Kopi Luwak

Today I just want to list 5 World's rarest coffee drinks, while the next day I'll break it into complete report.

Kopi Luwak coffee comes from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an area well-known for its excellent coffee. Also native to the area is a small civit-like animal called a Paradoxurus. That's the scientific name, the locals call them luwaks. These little mammals live in the trees and one of their favorite foods is the red, ripe coffee cherry. They eat the cherries, bean and all. While the bean is in the little guy's stomach, it undergoes chemical treatments and fermentations. The bean finishes its journey through the digestive system, and exits. The still-intact beans are collected from the forest floor, and are cleaned, then roasted and ground just like any other coffee.

The resulting coffee is said to be like no other. It has a rich, heavy flavour with hints of caramel or chocolate. Other terms used to describe it are earthy, musty and exotic. The body is almost syrupy and it's very smooth.

One must wonder about the circumstances that brought about the first cup of Kopi Luwak coffee. Who would think to (or even want to) collect and roast beans out of animal feces? Perhaps a native figured it was easier to collect the beans from the ground this way, rather than having to work harder and pick them from the trees? We'll likely never know. But because of the strange method of collecting, there isn't much Kopi Luwak produced in the world. The average total annual production is only around 500 pounds of beans.

Because of the rarity of this coffee, the price is quite outrageous. If you can find a vendor, the current cost for a pound of Kopi Luwak is around $300 or more. Some more adventurous coffee houses are selling it by the cup, but you won't likely find it at your local coffee shop just yet. The coffee isn't so spectacular that it's truly worth that amount of money. You are paying for the experience of enjoying such an unusual and rare delicacy.

A latest finding in US suggests that drinking a cup of coffee daily might reduce the risk of developing skin cancer. This study was started in 1990 and investigated 77,000 white postmenopausal women in the US.

These women provided lot of information about themselves like how much coffee or tea they drink and whether they had ever been diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer.

The study recorded many factors about the investigating women like their age, BMI, smoking habit and whether they live in a sunny area.

The researchers found that a daily cup of caffeinated coffee was connected with a five percent drop in the women's odds of reporting non-melanoma skin cancer, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. Women who drank six cups of caffeinated coffee per day were 30 per cent less likely than other women to report non-melanoma skin cancer, the researchers said.

February 26, 2009

Seattle, 1971The story begins with Starbucks in Seattle in 1971. Three friends, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, who had a passion for fresh coffee, opened a small shop and began selling fresh roasted, gourmet coffee beans and beer, and grilling accessories. The company did well, but things began to change in the 80's.

First, Zev Siegl sold in 1980. However, then Starbucks is the largest toaster in Washington DC six retail stores. In 1981, a seller of plastic found in many plastic drip brewing activities in terms that Starbucks was Hammarplast buy what the manufacturer. Howard Schultz is Starbucks becoming what Ray Kroc was a McDonald's, vendor support, which was the very product and a great opportunity.

Howard Schultz

In 1982, Baldwin hired Schultz as the new head of marketing, and soon after was sent to Milan to participate in the international home show in Italy. When he arrived, Schultz was in love with exciting culture of coffee in Italy. Schultz went to Verona and had his first coffee Latte. But something was more important than the coffee. Coffee and the customers were chatting in any other way fun when you sip your coffee in the elegant surroundings. This is the "AHA" moment of inspiration struck.

Good idea

Schultz currently is Epiphany, "Why did not create the meeting places of the community a great coffee house in Italy to the United States?" Could meet the old world is a New World? If it succeeded, it would be a marketing genius.

In 1983, the marketing manager had a vision to reform the magic and Idil behind the Italian coffee bar and wanted to test the concept of selling a cup of espresso coffee.Slowly! The mere sale of beans.

However, the idea of not Schultz down a Baldwin. Baldwin was not prepared to make the business of restaurants or take anything to disturb him in his original plan to sell the whole beans. But it remains a small test deposit Schultz espresso bar on the corner of a dealing.

Il Giornale to Starbucks and the different directions

When Starbucks Coffee opened its sixth store downtown Seattle, the café was a success. Was an immediate success.

Schultz, however, branched out on his own and opened a cafe on behalf of Italy's largest newspaper, the Daily or the Il Giornale. Two months later, the new store has more than 700 customers a day, and it had sales of 300 percent, while Starbucks locations.

Venda-out: This is my business.

In 1987, the owners of Starbucks Coffee Company decided to sell the coffee business, together with the name of the local investors with 3.7 million dollars. Schultz to raise money to try to convince investors of his vision, that it can open 125 outlets over the next five years. Also changed Il Giornale is a bare breasted mermaid logo into a socially unacceptable. The company's name was changed to Il Giornale is Starbucks, and eventually became a six-store Starbucks roasting elegant, comfortable coffee shops.

Era of growth

Starbucks coffee history was just beginning to emerge. From base 17 stores in 1987, the company quickly expanded to other cities: Vancouver, Portland and Chicago.

In 1991, Starbucks has grown to the directory, and permission to mail-transport between the airport and the expansion of stores in the state of California.

In 1992 the company was public, and after initial public offering, Starbucks continued to grow at a rate that no one has ever seen before in the world of coffee. In 1997 the number of Starbucks coffee stores grew tenfold, and the United States, Japan and Singapore.

Other business expansions

Not satisfied with just a simple tank of coffee, Starbucks launched a number of other products and brand extensions.

* Offering Starbucks coffee United Airlines flights. * Sales are Starbucks' own premium Tazo Tea Company. * Use the Internet to give people the opportunity to buy Starbucks coffee online. * Distribution throughout the bean and ground coffee, and supermarkets. * The production of coffee ice cream with Dreyer's. * Sales of the CD-Starbucks stores.

Starbucks success was largely through word of mouth, which made its name with one word. In fiscal year 2004, Starbucks rose to a record 1344 stores around the world.

An old man sat outside the walls of a great city. When travelers approached, they would ask the old man, "What kind of people live in this city?" The old man would answer, "What kind of people live in the place where you came from?" If the travelers answered, "Only bad people live in the place where we came from," the old man would reply, "Continue on; you will find only bad people here."

But if the travelers answered, "Good people live in the place where we came from," then the old man would say, "Enter, for here too, you will find only good people."

February 25, 2009

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.

Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!" "How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb. "I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man grabbed his hand and said, "I guess it worked!" Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."

Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb kept wondering what the man might have looked like in a Navy uniform. He wondered how many times he might have seen him and not even said good morning, how are you or anything, because you see, he was a fighter pilot and the man was just a sailor. Plumb thought of the many hours that sailor had spent in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he did not know.

Now Plumb asks his audience, "Who is packing your parachute?" Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down. As you go through your week, month, and even New Year, recognize the people who have packed your parachute and enabled you to get where you are today!

In ancient times, a king had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it.

Many loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the big stone out of the way. Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. On approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road.

After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. As the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many others never understand. Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve one's condition.

1. Dissolve sugar in the water in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. 2. When water comes to a boil, remove from the heat. 3. Stir in coffee, and return to the heat, slowly bringing the mixture to a boil. 4. When the mixture begins to rise, remove it from the heat and allow foam to subside. 5. Return to the heat and repeat this process four times. 6. When finished, Turkish coffee should be thick and frothy. 7. Serve in Turkish coffee cups or other small glasses.

If yesterday I post about history of coffee from Middle-East , today it's different ... now The History of Coffee from Greek views..

The discovery of coffee is shrouded in the myths and legends of antiquity. All of them will forever remain just stories and legends, however they are very interesting nonetheless.The first of these involves the ancient Greek poet/storyteller Homer.

He mentions a dark, bitter beverage that had the ability to prevent someone from becoming drowsy. Homer is said to have composed his Odyssey and Iliad around 800 B.C., therefore the earliest possible reference to coffee may date to this time period.

It is important to keep in mind that Homer does not refer to the beverage as 'coffee and there is no word in the classical Greek language for coffee.

Stories from the southern Arabian Peninsula (modern Yemen), where Europeans first discovered the cultivated coffee plant suggest that coffee may have been traded between Ethiopia and Yemen as early as 800 B.C. Some historians suggest the possibility that Arabian slave-traders who raided Africa as early as 1000 B.C. introduced coffee into Arabia. Still others suggest that when Ethiopia invaded the Arabian Peninsula in 525 A.D. they brought coffee with them and established the first coffee plants in Arabia at this time.

Today I would like to share Traditional Coffee making.A lightly spiced coffee made traditionally, without any filtering. I know that some people may not like the smell of herbs like Cinnamon or Cardamom , however these are their unique way to enjoy Coffee Daily since long time ago.

I think this is such a simple way to enjoy a different taste of Coffee, Also It takes a bit of practice to serve unfiltered coffee while keeping the grounds in the pot.

February 23, 2009

A man meets a guru in the road. The man asks the guru, "Which way is success?" The bearded sage speaks not, but points to a place off in the distance.

The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushes off in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there comes a loud "SPLAT."

Eventually, the man limps back, tattered and stunned, assuming he must have misinterpreted the message. He repeats his question to the guru, who again points silently in the same direction.

The man obediently walks off once more. This time the splat is deafening, and when the man crawls back, he is bloody, broken, tattered, and irate. "I asked you which way is success," he screams at the guru. "I followed the direction you indicated. And all I got was splatted! No more of this pointing! Talk!"

Only then does the guru speak, and what he says is this: "Success IS that way. Just a little PAST splat."

According to a coffee history legend, an Arabian shepherd named Kaldi found his goats dancing joyously around a dark green leafed shrub with bright red cherries in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Kaldi soon determined that it was the bright red cherries on the shrub that were causing the peculiar euphoria and after trying the cherries himself, he learned of their powerful effect. The stimulating effect was then exploited by monks at a local monastery to stay awake during extended hours of prayer and distributed to other monasteries around the world. Coffee was born.

Despite the appeal of such a legend, recent botanical evidence suggests a different coffee bean origin. This evidence indicates that the history of the coffee bean beagan on the plateaus of central Ethiopia and somehow must have been brought to Yemen where it was cultivated since the 6th century. Upon introduction of the first coffee houses in Cairo and Mecca coffee became a passion rather than just a stimulant.

February 22, 2009

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.Life is beauty, admire it.Life is bliss, taste it.Life is a dream, realize it.Life is a challenge, meet it.Life is a duty, complete it.Life is a game, play it.Life is a promise, fulfill it.Life is sorrow, overcome it.Life is a song, sing it.Life is a struggle, accept it.Life is a tragedy, confront it.Life is an adventure, dare it.Life is luck, make it.Life is too precious, do not destroy it.Life is life, fight for it.

1.Place 1 tbsp brown sugar in bottom of each clear goblet. 2.Add jigger of Irish Mist to each glass and stir. 3.Place teaspoon in bottom of glass and slowly pour coffee into goblet until about 1/4" from top of glass. 4.The spoon will protect goblet from cracking from heat of coffee) Move teaspoon to edge of coffee on top of glass. 5.SLOWLY pour heavy cream into spoon allowing overfill into glass. 6.If you do it correctly, the heavy cream will float on top of coffee. 7.DO NOT STIR. 8.SIP COFFEE THRU THE CREAM. 9.Delightful Coffee ready to coloring your day.

The history of coffee has been recorded as far back as the ninth century. At first, coffee remained largely confined to Ethiopia, where its native beans were first cultivated by Ethiopian highlanders. However, the Arab world began expanding its trade horizons, and the beans moved into northern Africa and were mass-cultivated. From there, the beans entered the Indian and European markets, and the popularity of the beverage spread.

The word "coffee" entered English in 1598 via Italian caffè. This word was created via Turkish kahve, which in turn came into being via Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun or wine of the bean. Islam prohibits the use of alcohol as a beverage, and coffee provided a suitable alternative to wine.

There are several legendary accounts of the origin of the drink itself. One account involves the Yemenite Sufi mystic Shaikh ash-Shadhili. When traveling in Ethiopia, the legend goes, he observed goats of unusual vitality, and, upon trying the berries that the goats had been eating, experienced the same vitality. A similar myth attributes the discovery of coffee to an Ethiopian goatherder named Kaldi and the Legend of Dancing Goats.

One possible origin of both the beverage and the name is the Kingdom of Kaffa in Ethiopia, where the coffee plant originated (its name there is bunn or bunna).

The earliest mention of coffee may be a reference to Bunchum in the works of the 10th century CE Persian physician Razi, but more definite information on the preparation of a beverage from the roasted coffee berries dates from several centuries later.The most important of the early writers on coffee was Abd al-Qadir al-Jaziri, who in 1587 compiled a work tracing the history and legal controversies of coffee entitled Umdat al safwa fi hill al-qahwa. He reported that one Sheikh, Jamal-al-Din al-Dhabhani, mufti of Aden, was the first to adopt the use of coffee (circa 1454). Coffee's usefulness in driving away sleep made it popular among Sufis. A translation[3] traces the spread of coffee from Arabia Felix (the present day Yemen) northward to Mecca and Medina, and then to the larger cities of Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, and Istanbul.

Coffee beans were first exported from Ethiopia to Yemen. Yemeni traders brought coffee back to their homeland and began to cultivate the bean. The first coffee house was Kiva Han, which opened in Istanbul in 1471. Coffee was at first not well received. In 1511, it was forbidden for its stimulating effect by conservative, orthodox imams at a theological court in Mecca. However, the popularity of the drink led these bans to be overturned in 1524 by an order of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Selim I, with Grand Mufti Mehmet Ebussuud el-İmadi issuing a celebrated fatwa allowing the consumption of coffee. In Cairo, Egypt, a similar ban was instituted in 1532, and the coffeehouses and warehouses containing coffee beans were sacked.

Similarly, coffee was banned by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church some time before the 17th century, along with smoking tobacco and chewing the mild stimulant khat, as it was seen as a Muslim and pagan practice. However, in the second half of the 19th century, Ethiopian attitudes softened towards coffee drinking, and its consumption spread rapidly between 1880 and 1886; according to Richard Pankhurst, "this was largely due to Emperor Menilek, who himself drank it, and to Abuna Matewos who did much to dispel the belief of the clergy that it was a Muslim drink.

February 21, 2009

Coffee is a brewed beverage prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the coffee plant. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans. Today, coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide.

Coffee was first consumed in the ninth century, when it was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia. From there, it spread to Egypt and Yemen, and by the 15th century, had reached Azerbaijan, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. From the Muslim world, coffee spread to Italy, then to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas.

Coffee berries, which contain the coffee bean, are produced by several species of small evergreen bush of the genus Coffea.

The two most commonly grown species are Coffea canephora (also known as Coffea robusta) and Coffea arabica. These are cultivated in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Once ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, and dried. The seeds are then roasted, undergoing several physical and chemical changes. They are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor. They are then ground and brewed to create coffee. Coffee can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways.

Coffee has played an important role in many societies throughout modern history. In Africa and Yemen, it was used in religious ceremonies. As a result, the Ethiopian Church banned its secular consumption until the reign of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia.

It was banned in Ottoman Turkey in the 17th century for political reasons, and was associated with rebellious political activities in Europe.

Coffee is an important export commodity.

In 2004, coffee was the top agricultural export for 12 countries, and in 2005, it was the world’s seventh-largest legal agricultural export by value.

Some controversy is associated with coffee cultivation and its impact on the environment. Many studies have examined the relationship between coffee consumption and certain medical conditions; whether the overall effects of coffee are positive or negative is still disputed.

February 28, 2009

Kopi (or coffee) Luwak from Sumatra, Indonesia is one of the rare type of coffee in the world. The current price of a pound of Kopi Luwak about $ 500 or more, and this is one of the most expensive coffee in the world.

In addition to the excellent taste of coffee, and coffee, is rare, since they are produced.Coffee cherries are picked, as well as other premium coffee market. In fact, the beans from the feces of pet cats Civets (scientific name: Paradoxurus), the local called "Luwak". It is believed that these mammals in the world's best coffee cherry picker. The Luwak chose coffee, ripe cherry and red and eat them. Eat only the skin, but he swallowed the beans to coffee beans are exposed to the process of fermentation in the digestive system and describe the cat Civets alien tastes. Coffee, beans and get rid of the cats Civets .

The Farmer collect the feces and cleaning the coffee.Why interest in coffee, which violates cultural taboos, ...because of his travel through the digestive system of animals? "All the calls for education and vocational training is the cat coffee," says Michael Sharp Australian cafe owner, was quoted as saying the Australian Associated Press.

High demand for coffee is folly Pyle got a forest floor, at first glance surprising. However, it is a taste of the coffee and the reasons for people to overcome the challenge of drinking "the cat, coffee, education, vocational training," says Reuters.

Kopi Luwak taste is different from other coffee in many different ways. Kopi Luwak coffee reports less protein, and there is also less other bacteria, possibly digest Civets floor. It has been absorbed by the feces of cats Civets beans are also available as the best and selected beans, because these animals only to get the best cherries of the coffee consumption.

Coffee drinkers, said it was a rich taste with hints of chocolate and candy flavors, it is lighter than other flavors of the coffee blends. Some describe as a simple, practical and musty taste, as the results of the digestion. Even the taste of coffee takes longer in the mouth.

The finished brew reportedly tastes smoother than other coffee blends and has an earthy, exotic flavor. Actually, similar coffee can be found in Vietnam and it is called “caphe cut chon” by the locals (which literally means fox-dung coffee).

February 27, 2009

I will share the world rarest and unique coffee drinks , as we all known , Coffee has being a part of our life, not all people but most of people loves it

Either in very usual and regular way to make a coffee daily in our life, to several unique way like Vietnam drips coffee , through an unusual way to enjoy this kind of drink such as Kopi Luwak , which may make sort of people didn't want to hear the process of making Kopi Luwak

Today I just want to list 5 World's rarest coffee drinks, while the next day I'll break it into complete report.

Kopi Luwak coffee comes from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an area well-known for its excellent coffee. Also native to the area is a small civit-like animal called a Paradoxurus. That's the scientific name, the locals call them luwaks. These little mammals live in the trees and one of their favorite foods is the red, ripe coffee cherry. They eat the cherries, bean and all. While the bean is in the little guy's stomach, it undergoes chemical treatments and fermentations. The bean finishes its journey through the digestive system, and exits. The still-intact beans are collected from the forest floor, and are cleaned, then roasted and ground just like any other coffee.

The resulting coffee is said to be like no other. It has a rich, heavy flavour with hints of caramel or chocolate. Other terms used to describe it are earthy, musty and exotic. The body is almost syrupy and it's very smooth.

One must wonder about the circumstances that brought about the first cup of Kopi Luwak coffee. Who would think to (or even want to) collect and roast beans out of animal feces? Perhaps a native figured it was easier to collect the beans from the ground this way, rather than having to work harder and pick them from the trees? We'll likely never know. But because of the strange method of collecting, there isn't much Kopi Luwak produced in the world. The average total annual production is only around 500 pounds of beans.

Because of the rarity of this coffee, the price is quite outrageous. If you can find a vendor, the current cost for a pound of Kopi Luwak is around $300 or more. Some more adventurous coffee houses are selling it by the cup, but you won't likely find it at your local coffee shop just yet. The coffee isn't so spectacular that it's truly worth that amount of money. You are paying for the experience of enjoying such an unusual and rare delicacy.

A latest finding in US suggests that drinking a cup of coffee daily might reduce the risk of developing skin cancer. This study was started in 1990 and investigated 77,000 white postmenopausal women in the US.

These women provided lot of information about themselves like how much coffee or tea they drink and whether they had ever been diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer.

The study recorded many factors about the investigating women like their age, BMI, smoking habit and whether they live in a sunny area.

The researchers found that a daily cup of caffeinated coffee was connected with a five percent drop in the women's odds of reporting non-melanoma skin cancer, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. Women who drank six cups of caffeinated coffee per day were 30 per cent less likely than other women to report non-melanoma skin cancer, the researchers said.

February 26, 2009

Seattle, 1971The story begins with Starbucks in Seattle in 1971. Three friends, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, who had a passion for fresh coffee, opened a small shop and began selling fresh roasted, gourmet coffee beans and beer, and grilling accessories. The company did well, but things began to change in the 80's.

First, Zev Siegl sold in 1980. However, then Starbucks is the largest toaster in Washington DC six retail stores. In 1981, a seller of plastic found in many plastic drip brewing activities in terms that Starbucks was Hammarplast buy what the manufacturer. Howard Schultz is Starbucks becoming what Ray Kroc was a McDonald's, vendor support, which was the very product and a great opportunity.

Howard Schultz

In 1982, Baldwin hired Schultz as the new head of marketing, and soon after was sent to Milan to participate in the international home show in Italy. When he arrived, Schultz was in love with exciting culture of coffee in Italy. Schultz went to Verona and had his first coffee Latte. But something was more important than the coffee. Coffee and the customers were chatting in any other way fun when you sip your coffee in the elegant surroundings. This is the "AHA" moment of inspiration struck.

Good idea

Schultz currently is Epiphany, "Why did not create the meeting places of the community a great coffee house in Italy to the United States?" Could meet the old world is a New World? If it succeeded, it would be a marketing genius.

In 1983, the marketing manager had a vision to reform the magic and Idil behind the Italian coffee bar and wanted to test the concept of selling a cup of espresso coffee.Slowly! The mere sale of beans.

However, the idea of not Schultz down a Baldwin. Baldwin was not prepared to make the business of restaurants or take anything to disturb him in his original plan to sell the whole beans. But it remains a small test deposit Schultz espresso bar on the corner of a dealing.

Il Giornale to Starbucks and the different directions

When Starbucks Coffee opened its sixth store downtown Seattle, the café was a success. Was an immediate success.

Schultz, however, branched out on his own and opened a cafe on behalf of Italy's largest newspaper, the Daily or the Il Giornale. Two months later, the new store has more than 700 customers a day, and it had sales of 300 percent, while Starbucks locations.

Venda-out: This is my business.

In 1987, the owners of Starbucks Coffee Company decided to sell the coffee business, together with the name of the local investors with 3.7 million dollars. Schultz to raise money to try to convince investors of his vision, that it can open 125 outlets over the next five years. Also changed Il Giornale is a bare breasted mermaid logo into a socially unacceptable. The company's name was changed to Il Giornale is Starbucks, and eventually became a six-store Starbucks roasting elegant, comfortable coffee shops.

Era of growth

Starbucks coffee history was just beginning to emerge. From base 17 stores in 1987, the company quickly expanded to other cities: Vancouver, Portland and Chicago.

In 1991, Starbucks has grown to the directory, and permission to mail-transport between the airport and the expansion of stores in the state of California.

In 1992 the company was public, and after initial public offering, Starbucks continued to grow at a rate that no one has ever seen before in the world of coffee. In 1997 the number of Starbucks coffee stores grew tenfold, and the United States, Japan and Singapore.

Other business expansions

Not satisfied with just a simple tank of coffee, Starbucks launched a number of other products and brand extensions.

* Offering Starbucks coffee United Airlines flights. * Sales are Starbucks' own premium Tazo Tea Company. * Use the Internet to give people the opportunity to buy Starbucks coffee online. * Distribution throughout the bean and ground coffee, and supermarkets. * The production of coffee ice cream with Dreyer's. * Sales of the CD-Starbucks stores.

Starbucks success was largely through word of mouth, which made its name with one word. In fiscal year 2004, Starbucks rose to a record 1344 stores around the world.

An old man sat outside the walls of a great city. When travelers approached, they would ask the old man, "What kind of people live in this city?" The old man would answer, "What kind of people live in the place where you came from?" If the travelers answered, "Only bad people live in the place where we came from," the old man would reply, "Continue on; you will find only bad people here."

But if the travelers answered, "Good people live in the place where we came from," then the old man would say, "Enter, for here too, you will find only good people."

February 25, 2009

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.

Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!" "How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb. "I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man grabbed his hand and said, "I guess it worked!" Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."

Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb kept wondering what the man might have looked like in a Navy uniform. He wondered how many times he might have seen him and not even said good morning, how are you or anything, because you see, he was a fighter pilot and the man was just a sailor. Plumb thought of the many hours that sailor had spent in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he did not know.

Now Plumb asks his audience, "Who is packing your parachute?" Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down. As you go through your week, month, and even New Year, recognize the people who have packed your parachute and enabled you to get where you are today!

In ancient times, a king had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it.

Many loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the big stone out of the way. Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. On approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road.

After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. As the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many others never understand. Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve one's condition.

1. Dissolve sugar in the water in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. 2. When water comes to a boil, remove from the heat. 3. Stir in coffee, and return to the heat, slowly bringing the mixture to a boil. 4. When the mixture begins to rise, remove it from the heat and allow foam to subside. 5. Return to the heat and repeat this process four times. 6. When finished, Turkish coffee should be thick and frothy. 7. Serve in Turkish coffee cups or other small glasses.

If yesterday I post about history of coffee from Middle-East , today it's different ... now The History of Coffee from Greek views..

The discovery of coffee is shrouded in the myths and legends of antiquity. All of them will forever remain just stories and legends, however they are very interesting nonetheless.The first of these involves the ancient Greek poet/storyteller Homer.

He mentions a dark, bitter beverage that had the ability to prevent someone from becoming drowsy. Homer is said to have composed his Odyssey and Iliad around 800 B.C., therefore the earliest possible reference to coffee may date to this time period.

It is important to keep in mind that Homer does not refer to the beverage as 'coffee and there is no word in the classical Greek language for coffee.

Stories from the southern Arabian Peninsula (modern Yemen), where Europeans first discovered the cultivated coffee plant suggest that coffee may have been traded between Ethiopia and Yemen as early as 800 B.C. Some historians suggest the possibility that Arabian slave-traders who raided Africa as early as 1000 B.C. introduced coffee into Arabia. Still others suggest that when Ethiopia invaded the Arabian Peninsula in 525 A.D. they brought coffee with them and established the first coffee plants in Arabia at this time.

Today I would like to share Traditional Coffee making.A lightly spiced coffee made traditionally, without any filtering. I know that some people may not like the smell of herbs like Cinnamon or Cardamom , however these are their unique way to enjoy Coffee Daily since long time ago.

I think this is such a simple way to enjoy a different taste of Coffee, Also It takes a bit of practice to serve unfiltered coffee while keeping the grounds in the pot.

February 23, 2009

A man meets a guru in the road. The man asks the guru, "Which way is success?" The bearded sage speaks not, but points to a place off in the distance.

The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushes off in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there comes a loud "SPLAT."

Eventually, the man limps back, tattered and stunned, assuming he must have misinterpreted the message. He repeats his question to the guru, who again points silently in the same direction.

The man obediently walks off once more. This time the splat is deafening, and when the man crawls back, he is bloody, broken, tattered, and irate. "I asked you which way is success," he screams at the guru. "I followed the direction you indicated. And all I got was splatted! No more of this pointing! Talk!"

Only then does the guru speak, and what he says is this: "Success IS that way. Just a little PAST splat."

According to a coffee history legend, an Arabian shepherd named Kaldi found his goats dancing joyously around a dark green leafed shrub with bright red cherries in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Kaldi soon determined that it was the bright red cherries on the shrub that were causing the peculiar euphoria and after trying the cherries himself, he learned of their powerful effect. The stimulating effect was then exploited by monks at a local monastery to stay awake during extended hours of prayer and distributed to other monasteries around the world. Coffee was born.

Despite the appeal of such a legend, recent botanical evidence suggests a different coffee bean origin. This evidence indicates that the history of the coffee bean beagan on the plateaus of central Ethiopia and somehow must have been brought to Yemen where it was cultivated since the 6th century. Upon introduction of the first coffee houses in Cairo and Mecca coffee became a passion rather than just a stimulant.

February 22, 2009

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.Life is beauty, admire it.Life is bliss, taste it.Life is a dream, realize it.Life is a challenge, meet it.Life is a duty, complete it.Life is a game, play it.Life is a promise, fulfill it.Life is sorrow, overcome it.Life is a song, sing it.Life is a struggle, accept it.Life is a tragedy, confront it.Life is an adventure, dare it.Life is luck, make it.Life is too precious, do not destroy it.Life is life, fight for it.

1.Place 1 tbsp brown sugar in bottom of each clear goblet. 2.Add jigger of Irish Mist to each glass and stir. 3.Place teaspoon in bottom of glass and slowly pour coffee into goblet until about 1/4" from top of glass. 4.The spoon will protect goblet from cracking from heat of coffee) Move teaspoon to edge of coffee on top of glass. 5.SLOWLY pour heavy cream into spoon allowing overfill into glass. 6.If you do it correctly, the heavy cream will float on top of coffee. 7.DO NOT STIR. 8.SIP COFFEE THRU THE CREAM. 9.Delightful Coffee ready to coloring your day.

The history of coffee has been recorded as far back as the ninth century. At first, coffee remained largely confined to Ethiopia, where its native beans were first cultivated by Ethiopian highlanders. However, the Arab world began expanding its trade horizons, and the beans moved into northern Africa and were mass-cultivated. From there, the beans entered the Indian and European markets, and the popularity of the beverage spread.

The word "coffee" entered English in 1598 via Italian caffè. This word was created via Turkish kahve, which in turn came into being via Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun or wine of the bean. Islam prohibits the use of alcohol as a beverage, and coffee provided a suitable alternative to wine.

There are several legendary accounts of the origin of the drink itself. One account involves the Yemenite Sufi mystic Shaikh ash-Shadhili. When traveling in Ethiopia, the legend goes, he observed goats of unusual vitality, and, upon trying the berries that the goats had been eating, experienced the same vitality. A similar myth attributes the discovery of coffee to an Ethiopian goatherder named Kaldi and the Legend of Dancing Goats.

One possible origin of both the beverage and the name is the Kingdom of Kaffa in Ethiopia, where the coffee plant originated (its name there is bunn or bunna).

The earliest mention of coffee may be a reference to Bunchum in the works of the 10th century CE Persian physician Razi, but more definite information on the preparation of a beverage from the roasted coffee berries dates from several centuries later.The most important of the early writers on coffee was Abd al-Qadir al-Jaziri, who in 1587 compiled a work tracing the history and legal controversies of coffee entitled Umdat al safwa fi hill al-qahwa. He reported that one Sheikh, Jamal-al-Din al-Dhabhani, mufti of Aden, was the first to adopt the use of coffee (circa 1454). Coffee's usefulness in driving away sleep made it popular among Sufis. A translation[3] traces the spread of coffee from Arabia Felix (the present day Yemen) northward to Mecca and Medina, and then to the larger cities of Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, and Istanbul.

Coffee beans were first exported from Ethiopia to Yemen. Yemeni traders brought coffee back to their homeland and began to cultivate the bean. The first coffee house was Kiva Han, which opened in Istanbul in 1471. Coffee was at first not well received. In 1511, it was forbidden for its stimulating effect by conservative, orthodox imams at a theological court in Mecca. However, the popularity of the drink led these bans to be overturned in 1524 by an order of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Selim I, with Grand Mufti Mehmet Ebussuud el-İmadi issuing a celebrated fatwa allowing the consumption of coffee. In Cairo, Egypt, a similar ban was instituted in 1532, and the coffeehouses and warehouses containing coffee beans were sacked.

Similarly, coffee was banned by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church some time before the 17th century, along with smoking tobacco and chewing the mild stimulant khat, as it was seen as a Muslim and pagan practice. However, in the second half of the 19th century, Ethiopian attitudes softened towards coffee drinking, and its consumption spread rapidly between 1880 and 1886; according to Richard Pankhurst, "this was largely due to Emperor Menilek, who himself drank it, and to Abuna Matewos who did much to dispel the belief of the clergy that it was a Muslim drink.

February 21, 2009

Coffee is a brewed beverage prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the coffee plant. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans. Today, coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide.

Coffee was first consumed in the ninth century, when it was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia. From there, it spread to Egypt and Yemen, and by the 15th century, had reached Azerbaijan, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. From the Muslim world, coffee spread to Italy, then to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas.

Coffee berries, which contain the coffee bean, are produced by several species of small evergreen bush of the genus Coffea.

The two most commonly grown species are Coffea canephora (also known as Coffea robusta) and Coffea arabica. These are cultivated in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Once ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, and dried. The seeds are then roasted, undergoing several physical and chemical changes. They are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor. They are then ground and brewed to create coffee. Coffee can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways.

Coffee has played an important role in many societies throughout modern history. In Africa and Yemen, it was used in religious ceremonies. As a result, the Ethiopian Church banned its secular consumption until the reign of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia.

It was banned in Ottoman Turkey in the 17th century for political reasons, and was associated with rebellious political activities in Europe.

Coffee is an important export commodity.

In 2004, coffee was the top agricultural export for 12 countries, and in 2005, it was the world’s seventh-largest legal agricultural export by value.

Some controversy is associated with coffee cultivation and its impact on the environment. Many studies have examined the relationship between coffee consumption and certain medical conditions; whether the overall effects of coffee are positive or negative is still disputed.